Sash-holder.



No. 6331.467. Patented Sept. :9, I899. s. A. monnow'a J. c. HALCOM.

SASH HOLDER.

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SCOTT A. h'iORRO\V AND JARRET OONKLIN HALCOM, OF COMMERCE, TEXAS.

SASH-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,467, dated September 19, 1899.

Application filed May 29, 1399- Serial No. 718,687. (No model.)

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SCOTT A. MORROW and JARRET OONKLIN HALOOM, of Commerce, in the county of Hunt and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sash -Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to sash-holders, and particularly to that class of sash-holders in which spring-pressed friction-rollers are employed; and it has for its object a device of this character which will combine cheapness and simplicity of construction with efficiency of operation.

A further object of our invention is a sashholder that will act as a guard against the admission of air, dust, rain, or the like through the window, making the device especially adaptable to railway-cars.

The invention consists principally of springs in suitable recesses in the stiles of the sash, the said springs being held in such recesses so that they will extend in a direction away from the stile and at an oblique angle to the side edges of the stiles, and friction-rollers carried on the free ends of said springs and caused to engage the guide-strip with their peripheries and the frame of the window with their side faces.

The invention also consists in certain arran gement of the parts and construction thereof, which we will first describe and then point out in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a windowsash with our improvements attached. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section thereof. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section. Fig. 4 is a perspective detail view of the spring and roller detached, and Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view of the windowsash at right angles to Fig. 2.

' The window-sash is formed with the usual rails 11 and stiles 12, and each of the latter is provided with recesses 13in its outer face, there being preferably two recesses in each stile, and each recess at its end adjacent the rails 11 is formed with a circular bearing 1-1, open at that side of the stile which is the inner side when the sash is in place. In

eachrecess 13 is secured a spring 15, (shown detached in Fig. 4,) one end of the spring being formed integral with or secured to a tapering base-plate 16, fastened to the stile by screws or other suitable fastening means. The springs extend from the said base-plates outwardly and at oblique angles to the side edges of the stiles and have, their free ends bent outwardly, as at 17, and lying close to the inner edges of the stiles. On these bent ends friction-rollers 18 are journaled, the peripheries of the rollers extending to and beyond the inner edges of the stiles. Now it will be seen that when the sash embodying the features of our invention is placed in a window-frame the peripheries of the frictionrollers will bear against the guide-strips 19, thereby forcing the sash outwardly against the window-frame and excluding air, dust, rain, or the like, and the outer faces of the rollers will likewise bear against the jamb of the window-frame, enabling the sash to be held at any desired elevation without the use of cords, weights, or-other similar mechanism.

It is evident that we have produced a very eflicient sash-holder of very few parts. arranging the springs at oblique angles to the side edges of the stiles and extending out from the stiles and then mounting frictionrollers on the free ends of the springs, so that the springs will have a tendency to hold the peripheries of the rollers beyond the side edges of the stiles and the outer faces beyond the faces of the stiles, we enable each spring to perform a double function, which materially increases the usefulness of the device and lessens the cost of its manufacture. It is also evident that our device will compensate for the shrinking and swelling of the sash, owing to changes in the atmosphere,

we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-.

ters Patent, is

A sash-holder comprising a base-plate arranged for attachment to the side of a win- (low-sash, a spring extending from said baseplate at oblique angles to the side edges of ihatlface of the stile to which the base-plate is attached and also out from such face of the stile, and a friction-roller jonrnaled on the free end of said spring and held thereby with its face in frictional contact with the frame and its periphery in frictional contact with the adjacent guide-strip as and for the pur= pose set forth;

SCOTT A. MORROW. JARRET CONKLIN HALOOM.

l Vitnessesz H. U:. OLIVE E. K. NORSWORTHY. 

